Schild
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,303
in German word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Schild is aGermannoun. It means: frühzeitliche/mittelalterliche Platte zum Schutz des eigenen Körpers im Kampf (oft versehen mit dem Erkennungswappen des jeweiligen Schildträgers; hieraus ist die Bedeutung des "Schild(e)s als Info... Pronounced [ʃɪlt]. It ranks #4,303 in German word frequency. Often confused with schul and Schule.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Schild |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʃɪlt] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #4,303 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Schild is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʃɪlt]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,303 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 14 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for Schild, with forms such as "cshild", "scchild", and "schhild". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "schul", "Schule", "Schuld", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Schild, spelled S-C-H-I-L-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1frühzeitliche/mittelalterliche Platte zum Schutz des eigenen Körpers im Kampf (oft versehen mit dem Erkennungswappen des jeweiligen Schildträgers; hieraus ist die Bedeutung des "Schild(e)s als Informationsträger" (siehe unten) entstanden)
- 2Schutzplatte an Geschützen
- 3Energiebarriere, häufig Bestandteil von Science-Fiction
- 4zentraler – manchmal auch einziger – Teil eines Wappens
- 5großes, tektonisch stabiles Gebiet innerhalb eines Kontinents
- 6das Sternbild Scutum in der Nähe des Himmelsäquators
- 7länglicher Schirm an manchen Kappen oder Mützen
- 8rundes, mit Hartmetallzähnen ausgerüstetes Schneidwerkzeug, das an der Tunnelbrust vorwärts geschoben wird und einen Tunnel in den Berg fräst
- 9Räumgerät eines Schneepflugs
- 10Panzerplatte an Krebsen, Insekten und Schildkröten
- 11die Schulter bei Rind und Schwein
- 12das auffällige Brustgefieder am männlichen Auerhahn und Birkhahn und die Hinterbrust der männlichen Feldhühner
- 13das verdickte Blatt des Keilers
- 14eine Schutzmaßnahme, siehe Apologetik
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cshild,scchild,schhild,schidl,schildd,schilld,schlid,scihld,shcild,sschild
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Schild
Misspelling Variants of "Schild"
Frequency rank: #4,303 in German
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